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Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the August-September 2004 (Vol. LXXI No. 5) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Joanne Kennedy and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Solidarity and Suffering ("The following is an excerpt from an interview with our friend and Human Rights Advocate, Pat Rice"); The Methods of Tyranny by Padraic O'Neil (on torture in Iraq and Afghanistan by the U.S. military, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba); I am an Ordinary Man by Art Laffin (on Mordechai Vanunu); Another Path of Resistance by Patrick O'Neill ("Jeremy Hinzman is one of at least two US GIs who have openly fled to Canada to avoid deployment to Iraq"); memorial tribute for David Dellinger 1915-2004 by Staughton Lynd; To the Court (an "excerpt from Dave Dellinger's Statement to the Court before sentencing on the anti-riot conviction in 1970"); memorial tribute for Mattie Robinson 1943-2004 by Tanya Theriault; memorial tribute for Ed Marciniak 1918-2004 by William Droel. Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June-July 2004 (Vol. LXXI No. 4) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Joanne Kennedy and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Peace Group Wins in Iowa by Brian Terrell ("The object of federal interest [United States District Court] was a conference hosted by the Drake [University] Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, students and professors at Drake's law school, and 'Stop the Occupation, Bring Iowa National Guard Home!' This was a day-long meeting of education as well as protest of the occupation of Iraq"); What We've Seen and Heard by Tom Cornell ("I made friends in Baghdad. I thought of them everyday. Then came the bombing, the invasion, the occupation, the looting"); War on Trial In Ithaca, NY by Cathy Breen (which begins, "On St. Patrick's Day, 2003, four Catholic Workers entered a US military recruiting station in Ithaca, NY and poured blood on the walls and floor in a desperate attempt to call attention to the impending attack on Iraq. Some of the blood went on a flag. As they sat in jail later that day, President George Bush announced that the invasion would begin within 48 hours. A year later, Peter DeMott, Clare and Teresa Grady and Danny Burns were being brought to trial - a trial by jury"); letter from Kathy Kelly from Pekin Federal Prison Camp, Illinois, headlined "Prison Labor" ("Kathy is serving a six-month sentence for an act of civil disobedience at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia"); Haiti's Poor & US Policy by Gregory Doroski and Jonathan Greenberg; 'Chocolat' [Film] and Catholicity by Bill Antalics. Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 2005 (Vol. LXXII No. 3) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Joanne Kennedy and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Soldier Asks Forgiveness by Camilo Mejia ("Camilo Mejia was incarcerated for one year for desertion. He was released in February, 2005. The following statement was written while he was in prison"); Not in Your Best Interest by Matt Vogel (which begins, "Even though we don't take the bait, credit card offers come several times each week for many of us, promising large credit lines and low interest rates"); The Roots of Radicalism by Dorothy Day ("The following article was written in the early sixties, but unpublished until CW, May 1988"); poetry Easy Essays by Peter Maurin (When Bankers Rule and Legalized Usury); The Aims and Means of the Catholic Worker; Our Call to Poverty by Jim Reagan; memorial tribute for Sr. Peter Claver, 1899-2004 by Karen B. Lenz. Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover; several round light stains to front cover, else Fine.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 2000 (Vol. LXVII No. 7) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Lucia Russett and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: In Memory and Love of Eileen Egan by Kate Hennessy; Property and Poverty by Eileen Egan (an excerpt from the December 1977 issue of The Catholic Worker); Peter Maurin Farm by Tom Cornell; Witness to Joy and Sorrow by Miriam Ford (with the preface, "On December 2, 1980, Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel, and lay missionary Jean Donovan were abducted on the main road from San Salvador's airport by members of the Salvadoran National Guard. Two days later, the four churchwomen's bodies were found buried; they had been tortured, raped and shot. Now, their families are bringing a 'wrongful death' civil lawsuit against two of the officers, Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova and Jose Guillermo Garcia. The trial, held in West Palm Beach, FL, began on October 10"); A Blessing on Our House by Cathy Breen (a memorial tribute for Dr. Humberton Kayumba); letter to CW from Lori Berenson ("who is being held in prison in Peru"); CW Book List; The Greening Of Faith by Alexander Lee (reviews of the books by John E. Carroll); The Lowly Are Exalted by Bernard Connaughton. Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June-July 2001 (Vol. LXVIII No. 4) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Lucia Russett and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Toxic Silence In Louisiana by Suzette Ermler (on the Pittsburgh Plate and Glass - PPG - and Condea-Vista chemical plants); Of Meals And Journeys by Deirdre Cornell (a visit with a migrant farmworker family); Not One More Bomb, Not One More Day! by Brian Terrell (on Camp Garcia, located on Vieques, officially Isla de Vieques, an island, town and municipality of Puerto Rico); memorial tribute for Sr. Barbara Ford, 1939-2001 by Lucia Russett (with a letter from Monsignor Julio Cabrera Ovalle, Bishop of Quiche, to the Sisters of Charity of New York, which was read at the funeral Mass for Sr. Barbara Ford); Iraq Sanctions Revisited by Christopher Allen-Doucot; Living Wage Campaign by Marion McCue de Velez (on Harvard University; "1400 workers on campus are paid less than a living wage. These workers include janitorial staff, security officers and dining service workers, and are, disproportionately, immigrants and people of color"); Walking the Walk by Jim Reagan ("Jesus ate with priests, sinners, prostitutes, tax collectors, and apostles, with rich and poor. Too often and too easily, I can dismiss the evening crowd [at St. Joseph House] as 'yuppies' or 'dot-commers.' Self-righteousness can be a real danger for those of us who care about social justice"). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the August-September 2000 (Vol. LXVII No. 5) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Lucia Russett and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: memorial tribute Tom Sullivan, 1913-2000 by Patrick Jordan; "New Military Humanism" by Jeremy Scahill ("Since US-led NATO forces and the UN assumed control of Kosovo, the province has become a living hell for Serbs, Roma people - Gypsies, Slavic Muslims and other minorities"); poem St. Joseph House by Thomas Vecchio; Does God Suffer With Us? Musings of a Mother by Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton (with topics An Unlikely Trinity, Golgotha as Paradigm, Gethsemane as Paradigm, This is Love: An Attempt at Connection, and Let's Play Jesus); I Will Never Forget Him by James O'Gara (on Tom Sullivan); Walking with St. Alphonsus Liguori (with topics Compassion and Communion, Founding Father, Bishop of the Poor, Words of Love, and A Saint Among Saints). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the January-February 2000 (Vol. LXVII No. 1) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Lucia Russett and Patrick Wynne as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Hospitality & Mutual Trust by Michael Kirwan ("The following is excerpted from the Sept. 1991 CW. Michael Kirwan died on Nov. 12, 1999"); A Legacy of Mercy by Jane Sammon (a tribute to Michael Kirwan, which begins, "After your death, Michael, I thought of that 'Easy Essay' of Peter Maurin's, the one about how 'people go to Washington,' and I couldn't help but laugh at the irony of it all. You, a son of Washington, DC, stayed there, living among the powerless, the broken, the people of no property"); Pray for Our Enemies by Robert Rhodes (which begins, "Who of us really knows how to pray for our enemies? This is what comes to me out here in our cornfield, as I wait for the combine to make another pass and fill up the grain truck I'm driving"); A Festival of Hope (a letter to CW from Larry Rosebaugh in El Quiche, Guatemala); In Memory of My Brother by Art Laffin ("We would soon learn that Paul was stabbed by a man, Dennis Soutar, who frequented Mercy Housing and Shelter, where Paul worked, in Hartford, CT"); Thirty Years After the One Man Revolution, with two articles: Irritatingly Right by Michael True (on Ammon Hennacy) and Life at Hard Labor by Ammon Hennacy (reprinted from the June 1953 CW). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover; outer cover lightly sunned.

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the March-April 2000 (Vol. LXVII [misprinted LXVIII] No. 2) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Lucia Russett and Patrick Wynne as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: One Way to Resist War by Melissa Jameson (on war tax resistance, with topics First Steps and Continuing the Walk); Housing Policy Hurts Poor by Jim Wayne ("Everywhere across our land - city, suburb and countryside - the number of affordable housing units is declining, as a strong economy drives up rents"); Detroit Newspaper Strike - A Catholic Response by Lee Andrews (on the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, with topics The Priority of Labor, Merger and Monopoly, Legal Challenges, Marching On, and The Need for Conversion). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 2001 (Vol. LXVIII No. 3) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Lucia Russett and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Lies and Fishes by Florence Stratton (on R v Marshall which begins, "One August morning in 1993, in an act of civil disobedience, Donald Marshall Jr., a Mi'kmaq from Nova Scotia, went fishing. Later in the day Marshall was charged by officials of the Canadian government's Department of Fisheries and Oceans - DFO - with fishing without a license, selling his catch without a license, and fishing out of season. Maintaining that in engaging in these activities he was simply exercising his inherent Aboriginal and treaty rights, Marshall fought the charges right up to the Supreme Court"); Mutual Aid and the Land (Monica Ribar Cornell interviewed by Jane Sammon); Personalism & Homophobia by Talitha Glosemeyer ("If we believe in personalism and nonviolence, we must begin to talk to one another about homosexuality. Without open and compassionate discussion, we cannot move towards creating an atmosphere conducive to ending the homophobia that is within and around all of us"); Sikorsky Aircraft Protest by Suzette Ermler; The Aims and Means of the Catholic Worker; Electoral Politics and Anarchism (three views by Kevin Glover, Katharine Temple, and Padraic O'Neil); Emmanuel Mounier's Thought by Bill Griffin. Small mailing labels to upper edge of front cover; light crease to upper left corner.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 2004 (Vol. LXXI No. 7) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Joanne Kennedy and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: A Short Course in Solidarity by Amanda W. Daloisio (which begins, "On August 31, 2004, during the Republican National Convention, I was one of approximately 200 people who were arrested at the former site of the World Trade Center"); Protest as War Continues by Matt W. Daloisio (on protests before and during the Republican National Convention); memorial tribute Clarice Adams, 1925-2004 by Joanne Kennedy; Things We Hold in Common by Joseph E. Mulligan, SJ ("The following is excerpted from an open letter to Dorothy Day written by Fr. Mulligan while serving a three-month sentence this year for an act of civil disobedience at the School of the Americas. A Jesuit from the Detroit Province, he has been working in Nicaragua for many years"); Fool, Hearty and Faithful by Jim Forest (on "holy fools" such as St. Francis of Assisi, St. Basil the Blessed, and St. Xenia of St. Petersburg). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June-July 2000 (Vol. LXVII No. 4) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Lucia Russett and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: The Invisible College by Sachio Ko-Yin (with preface, "On August 6, 1998, Daniel Sicken and Sachio Ko-Yin symbolically disarmed a Minuteman III nuclear missile silo in Colorado. Sachio is writing from Allenwood Federal Prison Camp, Pennsylvania" - his article begins, "I am so thankful for finding this beautiful peace community, of all places, here in prison"); poem Priests and Policemen by Peter Maurin; Nonviolent Witness in DC by Melissa Jameson (which begins, "As someone exploring Catholicism, committed to pacifism, believing in anarchism, I was fortunate to be among the many thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC for the April 16 demonstration for global justice"); An Elegy for City Gardens by Suzette Ermler ("I am angry at a system that continues to sell these small plots to developers for money when there are abandoned buildings throughout the city"); Worker Rights Network by Jeffrey Hilgert (on the strike by foundry workers employed by MEI/GSI Incorporated in Duluth, Minnesota); Juntos Mejoramos el Barrio by Lucia Russett (on a recent march for amnesty for undocumented people from Union Square to City Hall); We Got Hauled off to the Slammer by Tim Kanz (on the IMF/World Bank protest on April 16); A Sign of God's Love by Terry Rogers; Bottom Line For the U'wa by Felton Davis (on the U'wa people, "an indigenous group native to Colombia, under whose land are perhaps several billion barrels of oil"); Rockefeller Drug Laws: Justice Denied by Bill Antalics; excerpt of a statement by the New York State Conference of Catholic bishops on drug sentencing reform, June 14, 1999. Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover; two light folds.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the October-November 2004 (Vol. LXXI No. 6) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Joanne Kennedy and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: The Light of Conscience by Kathy Kelly, reprinted from the Summer 2004 Issue of 'Voices in the Wilderness' (on her visit by two F.B.I. agents at Pekin Federal Prison Camp, where she is "currently imprisoned for protesting the US Army's military combat training school [School of the Americas] in Fort Benning, GA"); Love Casts Out Fear by Dorothy Day (excerpted from the February 1960 issue of CW); Saints for Us Sinners by Jim Reagan (on the Feast of All Saints); Be All That You Can Be? by Matt Mercier (which begins, "When I turned eighteen back in the fall of 1992, my father told me I needed to sign up with the Selective Service; my mother endorsed the idea, but, taking me aside, introduced another concept: 'conscientious objection'"); We Parched Desert Travelers by Cathy Breen (on the nonviolent actions at the Times Square Recruiting Station); memorial tribute for Jane Kesel 1921-2004 by Geoffrey Gneuhs; memorial tribute for Czeslaw Milosz 1911-2004 by Bill Griffin; Sustainable Soup by Sheila McCarthy (on locally grown organic food). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the January-February 2001 (Vol. LXVIII No. 1) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Lucia Russett and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: New Life for the Left by Padraic O'Neil (the topics are: Third Way Leads Nowhere; The Violence of Globalization; The Case of Cuba; Nonviolent Anarchism); Saved by Beauty by Sue Frankel-Streit ("Why would we put our three kids, and anyone else we can find, into a car with 200,000 miles on it and drive 15 hours to risk getting arrested on an army base? Why would we teach our children at home? Why would we try to grow our own food?"); Carried by This Love by Heidi Barth (on Eileen Egan); Don't Bank on $in! by Jim Consedine (the topics are: Technology and Globalization; Economic Bondage; The Call to Redemption); Embattled Union in Nicaragua by Paul Baizerman (on Chentex factory in Nicaragua owned by the Taiwanese consortium Nien Hsing; the preface reads, "The following is an excerpt from Tecnica News, the author's newsletter, discussing the current crisis in the Nicaraguan [Las Mercedes] Free Trade Zone, which has threatened the livelihood of workers in the region. Central to this struggle is the survival of the union at the Chentex factory. The basic wage at Chentex is about $63 a month. The 'canasta basica' - basic basket - of 52 consumer goods, such as food and soap for a family of five, costs nearly $200 a month. The living conditions of workers and their families are so miserable that the union is fighting for a subsistence wage"); memorial tribute A Winter With Bob Lax by Tom Cornell; poem "Acrobat's Song" by Bob Lax; With Crosses and Banners by Suzette Ermler (on the protest at the Fort Benning military base). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover; light creases to upper left corner.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the January-February 2005 (Vol. LXXII No. 1) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Joanne Kennedy and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: War Resisters and Taxes by Ruth Benn and Ed Hedemann ("What better time to be a war tax resister than now?"); On Trial in Ireland by Carmen Trotta (which begins, "On February 3, 2003, long-time Catholic Worker and Plowshares activist Ciaron O'Rielly and four other Catholic activists, Irish citizens Deirdre Clancy and Damien Moran, American Nuin Dunlop and Scotswoman Karen Fallon - both of Irish extraction - in a challenge to the law, custom and the consciences of the Irish people, breached security at Ireland's Shannon Airport and did extensive damage to a United States Navy transport plane en route to the Persian Gulf"); The Genesis of Our Faith by Tanya Theriault (on Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg); Rooted in the Seasons by Sarah Brook; Navy Short-Circuits ELF by Matt Vogel (on Project ELF radio transmitters); Life and All Its Fullness by Jane Sammon ("The following is an article reprinted from the Jan-Feb 1983 CW followed by recent reflections on the 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade"; she writes, in short part, "The loss of life through war or through capital punishment cannot be viewed as justified. Nor should the life of the unborn, life before birth, be claimed as anything less than life"). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the January-February 2002 (Vol. LXIX No. 1) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Lucia Russett and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: What Is Fundamental? by Katharine Temple (which begins, "Like 'communism' before, the term 'fundamentalism' has taken on a half-life of its own as a vessel for our views on other views and the people who hold them. Unlike communism, fundamentalism was first a homegrown American religious stance that, over time, acquired a derogatory label. Only recently has the expression burst into a buzzword to divide the whole world into good guys and bad guys"); To See Jesus In the Other by Dorothy Day (reprinted from the February 1960 issue of CW); Workers' Rights at Xavier by Ryan Nissim-Sabat (which begins, "In late September 2000, Sodexho food service workers at Xavier University - a Jesuit, Catholic university in Cincinnati, Ohio, began to talk about organizing a union with the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union [HERE], Local 12. The workers were determined to speak out against favoritism, long hours, costly health insurance, meager raises, and no voice on the job"); poem by Peter Maurin (Not a Liberal - Not a Conservative - A Radical Change); A School of Torture by Any Other Name by Melissa Jameson (the School of the Americas); one-column Red Tape by "Blood Donor K" (which begins, "The day after Thanksgiving, I went to Bellevue City Hospital to give blood"; Women In Black by Bill Griffin ("Women In Black is a loose international network of groups of women who share a common philosophy of opposition to militarism and violence"). Small mailing label and round green sticker to upper edge of front cover; tiny chips along upper right page edges (to blank margins only).

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June-July 2005 (Vol. LXXII No. 4) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Joanne Kennedy and Padraic O'Neil as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Jeffrey Lucey, Rest in Peace by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy; Our Downfall Is to Forget by David McReynolds; We Remember John Paul II ("Even as he was dying, we watched John Paul II courageously struggle, trying to continue to lead us to God"); !Basta Cafta! (a letter from Stephen Weil, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala); Letters for Freedom by Brook Garrison (which begins, "'No one is even going to read them, Ms. Garrison.' The voices of my students echoed in my mind as I dropped their letters to members of the United States Congress in the mailbox"); Private Plan for NYC Park by Jonathan Greenberg (on Washington Square Park); A Reason for Our Hope (on Henri Lacordaire, reprinted with permission, from 'All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets and Witnesses for Our Time' by Robert Ellsberg). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover; light wear along upper edges.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1999 (Vol. LXVI No. 7) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton, Lucia Russett, and Patrick Wynne as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: I Pray a Lot in Prison ("An interview with veteran Catholic Worker and peace activist Kathleen Rumpf, released from prison, July 1999. Father Jim Consedine is a prison chaplain in New Zealand"); Transforming Justice by Jim Consedine; Money from Money = Theft by Katharine Temple (which begins, "1999 marks the 70th anniversary of the Great Crash of '29. Its shockwaves have a long afterlife, for in its wake came the Depression, which is still an economic and emotional litmus test for many people. In the midst of that crisis, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin began the Catholic Worker, and Peter pinpointed usury as the moral and material hub of the mess. Seventy years later, the question remains: Does Peter read as an old-fashioned dreamer or a hard-nosed realist?"); memorial tribute for Helen Nebolsine, 1910-1999 by Geoffrey Gneuhs; letter to CW from Michael Kirwan headlined "All in God's Time" (which begins, "Dear, Dear Friends, Last Tuesday, my doctor at Providence Hospital told me the cancer within my lung had spread. It is now in my brain, colon, liver, elbow, foot, hip and leg. There is not much to be done except to pray" and ends "For now, let us rejoice and be glad - Emmanuel, the Lord is with us! - as we heard at Mass this morning on the Feast of the Birth of Mary. Indeed, God is with us"); Monastic Roots of the Catholic Worker Movement by Brian Terrell (the topics are: Catholic and Radical; Work for Love's Sake; Prayer and Prison; Pax). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the October-November 1999 (Vol. LXVI No. 6) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton, Lucia Russett, and Patrick Wynne as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: War & Peace In Sierra Leone by Florence Stratton; St. Teresa [of Ávila], Love's Mystic by Jim Reagan; Letter from a Plowshares Prisoner - Daniel Sicken ("Daniel Sicken and Sachio Ko-Yin, on Hiroshima Day, August 6, 1998, hammered on a Minuteman III nuclear missile silo in northeast Colorado. They were convicted of sabotage; Daniel was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison, and Sachio to 30 months); letter from Erik Torch from Pristina, Kosovo, headlined Truth & Mercy in Kosovo; A Common Vision of Change by Lucia Russett (a history of the settlement house movement); Cemetery Workers Strike by David Gregory; Seamen's Strike by Dorothy Day (on the National Maritime Union; an excerpt from 'The Selected Writings of Dorothy Day'); Ten Years After Tiananmen Square by Michael True; memorial tribute for Alberta Piccolino by Bernard Connaughton. Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June-July 1998 (Vol. LXV No. 4) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton as Managing Editor, and Editors Frank Donovan and Jane Sammon. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Matriarchs & Disciples by Katharine Temple (with topics Leah and Rachel; Martha and Mary); Swift & Indiscriminate Deportations by Deirdre Cornell (on the INS - United States Immigration and Naturalization Service); short Poverty Disguised by Joe Wells ("In America, it is much easier to dress the poor decently than to house, feed or doctor them decently"); Grief & Hope in Guatemala by Larry Rosebaugh, OMI; On Responsible Investment (excerpt from St. Basil's 'Second Homily on Psalm 15'); memorial tribute for Denise Levertov, 1923-1997 by Jack Thornton (with her poem "The Secret"); memorial tribute for Phil Maloney, 1940-1998 by Bob Gilliam; The Vermont Job Gap Study by Alexander Lee; The Early Church on War by Tony Korec (with topics Deserting Violence, Words of Conscience, and A Pacifist Tradition). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the January-February 1998 (Vol. LXV No. 1) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton as Managing Editor, and Editors Frank Donovan and Jane Sammon. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Iraq: As The People Suffer by Rick McDowell ("The UN Food and Agriculture Organization reported in December of 1995 that more than one million Iraqis have died - 567,000 of them children - as a direct consequence of economic sanctions"); Advent Of The Cuban Church by Jeremy Scahill (which begins, "From January 21-25, 1998, Pope John Paul II will visit the island nation of Cuba, the first papal voyage to the island since the 1959 revolution. There is little doubt that the Holy Father will publicly, and more boldly, reiterate what he has already requested of President Clinton privately, the lifting of 'economic, commercial and financial sanctions against Havana"); Change Comes From The Margins of Power by Katharine Temple; Mohandas Gandhi: Some Lessons In His Experiments With Truth: Vision of Nonviolence by Arya Bhushan Bhardwaj; short Abraham Joshua Heschel by Bill Griffin; short 2,000 Protest at the SOA [School of the Americas] by Joanne Kennedy; A Place On The Land by T. Christopher Cornell (on Peter Maurin Farm). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the October-November 1997 (Vol. LXIV No. 6) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton as Managing Editor, and Editors Frank Donovan and Jane Sammon. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Memories of Passion and Abundant Love by Kate Hennessy (on Dorothy Day, with her photo); Cassini: Mission Immoral by Jeremy Scahill (on Cassini-Huygens, which begins, "On October 6, 1997, the US government plans to take what is probably the single greatest act of jeopardizing the safety of humanity since dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA - intends to launch the largest quantity of nuclear material ever into space. Ostensibly intended for a probing of Saturn, the $3.4 billion 'Cassini Project' will be laden with 72.3 pounds of plutonium 238, which is 280 times more radioactive than the isotope employed in nuclear bombs"); The Cruelty of Landmines by Jane Sammon; obituary and memorial Bobby West #731: 1964-1997 by Katharine Temple (on Robert Wallace West, Jr., which begins with a short letter, "Dear Katharine Temple, Our friend Bobby West was executed on July 29, 1997 by a lethal injection, at 6:41 pm. I hope there will be an obituary in 'The Catholic Worker.' He was a vital spokesperson for the voiceless thousands on US Death Rows. I first read his words in the CW. In Christ the Revolutionary, Gretchen Laugier"); pages 4-5 are devoted to three short articles on Dorothy Day (with five photos): We Must Choose Sides by Eileen Egan; Woman of Fortitude by Sister Peter Claver, MSBT; and Dorothy Day: Teacher and Mother by Tom and Monica Cornell; A Thousand Voices by Cathy Breen ("On August 7th, we gathered in the lobby of the NASA headquarters with banners and leaflets to protest the prospective launching of the Cassini space probe"); short She Chose the All and Nothing Less Would Satisfy Her (on St. Therese of Lisieux). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1997 (Vol. LXIV No. 7) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton as Managing Editor, and Editors Frank Donovan and Jane Sammon. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Dorothy Day on Staten Island: Close To Nature's Heart by Jim O'Grady; Mother Teresa: Instrument Of God's Peace by Eileen Egan; God Will Not Abandon Me by Michele [incorrectly spelled as Michelle] Naar-Obed ("This open letter was written for the 'Faith and Resistance' retreat of the Atlantic Life Community, August 6-9. As we go to press, Michele's release date is November 3, 1997. However, conditions have been applied to her probation which forbid her to associate with 'known felons' - including forbidding her from returning to her family's home, Jonah House"); letter from Florence Anderson (on the passing and funeral of Paulo Freire); Counting by Michael J. Gent (on poverty in Namibia: "Many Namibians work as casual laborers and seasonal farm workers, for whom there is insufficient work throughout the year. Their standard of living is so low that, according to the World Bank, they live in 'absolute' poverty"); On The Question of Human Work ("This is an excerpt from the homily that Pope John [Paul] II gave at a June 2 Mass during his two-day tour of Poland this summer"). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June-July 1999 (Vol. LXVI No. 4) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton, Lucia Russett, and Patrick Wynne as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Teaching Peace at Home by Joe and Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton; No to Bombing, No to War! ("The 'duty of delight' refers to the necessary practice of collecting and cherishing the thousand intimations in our daily lives that life itself has meaning"); A War Resister Speaks by David McReynolds ("This is excerpted from a speech given at a demonstration against the bombing of Yugoslavia on April 23, 1999, in Washington Square Park, New York City"); Jasper, Texas: Racism on Trial by Suzette Ermler (on the murder of James Byrd Jr. and the trial, conviction, and sentencing of John William "Bill" King); NATO's Ecological Warfare by Mitchel Cohen (which begins, "Several weeks ago, a leader of the Yugoslavian Green Party warned that NATO missiles were beginning to contaminate the water supply for much of Eastern Europe"); Iraq: War On Another Front by Rick McDowell; Torture Profits Business by Donald Gutierrez (on the "increasing use of shock devices such as stun belts, stun guns, shock batons and electric shields by law-enforcement officials to control prisoners"); Nicaragua Rebuilds by Bill Ofenloch; Joseph Called Barnabas by Katharine Temple. Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover; light wear along outer fold.

Newspaper. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the March-April 1999 (Vol. LXVI No. 2) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton, Lucia Russett, and Patrick Wynne as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: Sanctions and Their Victims by Carmen Trotta (which begins, "On December 16, 1998, without any UN authorization, the United States and Great Britain initiated four days of cruise missile attacks against the state and people of Iraq. Following the vicious logic of the Gulf War from 1991, Iraq's greatly impaired civilian infrastructure was once again targeted"); Health & Wealth: Second Opinions by Daniel Callahan and Katharine Temple ("These two articles were written in response to Jeffrey Nichols's 'A Prescription for Justice,' Jan.-Feb. 1999 CW"); If the Shoe Doesn't Fit by Bill Antalics (on St. John's University and Nike); End the Death Penalty by Bill Griffin; New Pictures of Old Wars by Stephen Vincent Kobasa (on the films "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Thin Red Line"); Resistance and Resurrection in Acteal [Chiapas, Mexico] by Anna Brown (on the massacre of Tzotzil indigenous persons by the Red Mask paramilitary force); Two Healers in Chiapas by Deirdre Cornell (on the Mexican Grail); The Last 'Testament' of the 'Poverello' by John Coppola ("This is the third and final article in our series on St. Francis of Assisi"). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover; tiny chip and light creases to upper fold corner of each page (to blank margins only).

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the January-February 1999 (Vol. LXVI No. 1) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton, Lucia Russett, and Patrick Wynne as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: A Prescription for Justice by Jeffrey Nichols (adapted from the Friday Night Meeting talk given on October 3, 1998, which begins, "I am going to propose an outline of what I see as the general failure of our society to meet the health care needs of the elderly and the poor"); New Fire in Niger Delta by Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill ("The Niger Delta is on fire. Last fall's explosion of a gas pipeline in Nigeria's oil-producing region killed more than 700 people. Once again, a leaky pipeline led to tragedy, and, as is so often the case in Nigeria, the military regime and the transnational oil companies, without presenting any evidence, called it sabotage"); Two Views of Peter Maurin Farm by Mary Lathrop and T. Christopher Cornell; Witness In Israel For Peace & A Nuclear-Free World, with two articles: Mordechai Vanunu by Art Laffin, and Demonstration in Dimona by Felice Cohen-Joppa (Israel's Dimona reactor); State of International Citizens' Weapons Inspection Team, Dimona, Israel, September 22, 1998; SOA [School of the Americas] Vigil Grows; The Legacy of Juan Gerardi from Larry - Lorenzo - Rosebaugh (on the assassination of Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi Conedera, Auxiliary Bishop of Guatemala); "A Place Called Chiapas" (on the documentary film); The 'Sequela Christi' of St. Francis [of Assisi] by John Coppola (the second of a three-part series; the topics are: Followers of Francis, The Stigmata, and 'Sister Death'). Two small mailing labels to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the October-November 1998 (Vol. LXV No. 6) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton as Managing Editor. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: The Means to Work and Pray by Dorothy Day (excerpted from an article in the October 1949 CW); Two Scholars on Technology (a discussion of two books: Mortality and Morality: A Search for the Good after Auschwitz by Hans Jonas, and The George [Parkin] Grant Reader); Globalization Strikes Again by Joanne Kennedy (on the General Motors Corporation, which begins, "In the last twenty years, the United Auto Workers union - UAW - has seen the loss of 45,000 manufacturing jobs in Flint, MI alone and watched union membership fall from 1.5 million to 770,000"); My Family Seeks the Truth by Miriam Ford (on the assaults and murders of Sisters Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, and Dorothy Kazel, and layperson Jean Donovan in El Salvador on December 2, 1980); US, Indonesia & East Timor by Carmen Trotta (with topics Greed and Violence, The Church Responds, and Congressional Action); Who Fares Well Under Workfare? by Bob Roberts (on New York's workfare program, the Work Experience Program - WEP); Italian Labor: A Journal by John Cort; Homage to Chilean Singer, Victor Jara by Suzette Ermler. Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover.

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the August-September 1999 (Vol. LXVI No. 5) issue of "The Catholic Worker: Organ of the Catholic Worker Movement " founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, with Sabra McKenzie-Hamilton, Lucia Russett, and Patrick Wynne as Managing Editors. A mid-folded newspaper, when unfolded measures 11-3/8" by 14-7/8" and contains eight pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations throughout, articles and other highlights of this issue include: A New Teacher's Education in Learning by David Mastrodonato; [How I Failed] Atomic Energy 101 by Harvey Fireside (which begins, "In the spring of 1957, I was at loose ends. I had served two years in the army. Now, I was back at Harvard on the GI Bill. But, as a refugee from Hitler's Vienna, I felt I had not fully paid my debt to the country that had saved my life in 1940. Without a fixed career choice, I was looking for an omen. At the placement office, I spotted a notice of a recruiting visit by the Atomic Energy Commission - AEC. I signed up for an interview"); Struggle Continues at CUNY [City University of New York] by Lucia Russett; Nukes in Space/Cassini Project Update (excerpt from the June Newsletter of the NY Metropolitan Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Justice); War Propaganda: Moving Away from the Myths by Katharine Temple; Hand-Me-Down US Medicine by Mary Ellen Neill ("As a health care professional working in one of the asentamientos - slums - surrounding Guatemala City, I can only watch helplessly as the march toward 'worse health' gains momentum"); Italian Labor Friends Visit by Tom Cornell; Punitive Welfare Policies by Patrick Langhenry and Lucia Russett; Grassroots Renewal in TN [Tennessee] by Karl Meyer (on Nashville Greenlands); To Follow in the Footsteps by Brother Vishwas (on Charles de Foucauld and Rene Voillaume). Small mailing label to upper edge of front cover; light wear along outer fold.